Nah...they just ran out of rocks to chisel calendars on.
http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_12-21-2012/mayan_calendar_end-date.htm
Is there something significant we should know about the Winter Solstice date of December 21, 2012? Yes. On this day a rare astronomical and Mayan mythical event occurs. In astronomic terms, the Sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. The Milky Way, as most of us know, extends in a general north-south direction in the night sky. The plane of the ecliptic is the track the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appear to travel in the sky, from east to west. It intersects the Milky Way at a 60 degree angle near the constellation Sagittarius.
The cosmic cross formed by the intersecting Milky Way and plane of the ecliptic was called the Sacred Tree by the Maya. The trunk of the tree, the Axis Mundi, is the Milky Way, and the main branch intersecting the tree is the plane of the ecliptic. Mythically, at sunrise on December 21, 2012, the Sun - our Father - rises to conjoin the center of the Sacred Tree, the World Tree, the Tree of Life..
This rare astronomical event, foretold in the Mayan creation story of the Hero Twins, and calculated empirically by them, will happen for many of us in our lifetime. The Sun has not conjoined the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic since some 25,800 years ago, long before the Mayans arrived on the scene and long before their predecessors the Olmecs arrived. What does this mean?
Due to a phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, caused by the Earth's wobble that lasts almost 26,000 years, the apparent location of the Winter Solstice sunrise has been ever so slowly moving toward the Galactic Center. Precession may be understood by watching a spinning top. Over many revolutions the top will rise and dip on its axis, not unlike how the Earth does over an extremely long period of time. One complete rise and dip constitutes the cycle of precession.
The Mayans noticed the relative slippage of the positions of stars in the night sky over long periods of observation, indicative of precession, and foretold this great coming attraction. By using an invention called the Long Count, the Mayans fast-forwarded to anchor December 21, 2012 as the end of their Great Cycle and then counted backwards to decide where the calendar would begin. Thus the Great Cycle we are currently in began on August 11, 3114 BCE But there's more.
The Great Cycle, lasting 1,872,000 days and equivalent to 5,125.36 years, is but one fifth of the Great Great Cycle, known scientifically as the Great Year or the Platonic Year - the length of the precession of the equinoxes. To use a metaphor from the modern industrial world, on Winter Solstice CE (Common Era) 2012 it is as if the Giant Odometer of Humanity on Earth hits 100,000 miles and all the cycles big and small turn over to begin anew. The present world age will end and a new world age will begin.
Over a year's time the Sun transits through the twelve houses of the zodiac. Many of us know this by what "Sun sign" is associated with our birthday. Upping the scale to the Platonic Year - the 26,000 year long cycle - we are shifting, astrologically, from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. The Mayan calendar does not really "end" in 2012, but rather, all the cycles turn over and start again, vibrating to a new era. It is as if humanity and the Earth will graduate in the eyes of the Father Sun and Grandmother Milky Way.
Is there something significant we should know about the Winter Solstice date of December 21, 2012? Yes. On this day a rare astronomical and Mayan mythical event occurs. In astronomic terms, the Sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. The Milky Way, as most of us know, extends in a general north-south direction in the night sky. The plane of the ecliptic is the track the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appear to travel in the sky, from east to west. It intersects the Milky Way at a 60 degree angle near the constellation Sagittarius.
The cosmic cross formed by the intersecting Milky Way and plane of the ecliptic was called the Sacred Tree by the Maya. The trunk of the tree, the Axis Mundi, is the Milky Way, and the main branch intersecting the tree is the plane of the ecliptic. Mythically, at sunrise on December 21, 2012, the Sun - our Father - rises to conjoin the center of the Sacred Tree, the World Tree, the Tree of Life..
This rare astronomical event, foretold in the Mayan creation story of the Hero Twins, and calculated empirically by them, will happen for many of us in our lifetime. The Sun has not conjoined the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic since some 25,800 years ago, long before the Mayans arrived on the scene and long before their predecessors the Olmecs arrived. What does this mean?
Due to a phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, caused by the Earth's wobble that lasts almost 26,000 years, the apparent location of the Winter Solstice sunrise has been ever so slowly moving toward the Galactic Center. Precession may be understood by watching a spinning top. Over many revolutions the top will rise and dip on its axis, not unlike how the Earth does over an extremely long period of time. One complete rise and dip constitutes the cycle of precession.
The Mayans noticed the relative slippage of the positions of stars in the night sky over long periods of observation, indicative of precession, and foretold this great coming attraction. By using an invention called the Long Count, the Mayans fast-forwarded to anchor December 21, 2012 as the end of their Great Cycle and then counted backwards to decide where the calendar would begin. Thus the Great Cycle we are currently in began on August 11, 3114 BCE But there's more.
The Great Cycle, lasting 1,872,000 days and equivalent to 5,125.36 years, is but one fifth of the Great Great Cycle, known scientifically as the Great Year or the Platonic Year - the length of the precession of the equinoxes. To use a metaphor from the modern industrial world, on Winter Solstice CE (Common Era) 2012 it is as if the Giant Odometer of Humanity on Earth hits 100,000 miles and all the cycles big and small turn over to begin anew. The present world age will end and a new world age will begin.
Over a year's time the Sun transits through the twelve houses of the zodiac. Many of us know this by what "Sun sign" is associated with our birthday. Upping the scale to the Platonic Year - the 26,000 year long cycle - we are shifting, astrologically, from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. The Mayan calendar does not really "end" in 2012, but rather, all the cycles turn over and start again, vibrating to a new era. It is as if humanity and the Earth will graduate in the eyes of the Father Sun and Grandmother Milky Way.
We are undergoing evolution, and that just may be something to it. I have heard such things and even the bible talks about the "end of the age". I think 2012 if there is anything significant to it, means a good thing, not bad. A wise man once said:
"You know, evolution did not end with us growing thumbs. You do know that, right? Didn’t end there. We’re at the point now where we have to evolve ideas. The reason the world’s so fucked up is because we’re undergoing evolution, and the reason our institutions, our traditional religions are all crumbling is because—THEY’RE NO LONGER RELEVANT. HAHAHAHA"
"You know, evolution did not end with us growing thumbs. You do know that, right? Didn’t end there. We’re at the point now where we have to evolve ideas. The reason the world’s so fucked up is because we’re undergoing evolution, and the reason our institutions, our traditional religions are all crumbling is because—THEY’RE NO LONGER RELEVANT. HAHAHAHA"
Crumbling and no longer relevant huh?
Tell that to the fastest growing religion in Asia and China...Christianity.
:lol:
The CIA World Factbook indictates that about 3% to 4% of all the population in China are Christians.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-29>[30]</SUP> Independent estimates have ranged from 40 million<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-BBC1_27-1>[28]</SUP>, to 100 million<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-30>[31]</SUP>, or even 130 million Christians in January 2007 (out of a total population of at least 1.3 billion people).<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-31>[32]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-32>[33]</SUP>
In October 2007 two surveys were conducted to estimate the number of Christians in China. One poll was held by Protestant missionary Werner Burklin, the other one by Liu Zhongyu from East China Normal University in Shanghai. The surveys were conducted independently and during different periods, but they reached the same results.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-autogenerated8_10-1>[11]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-autogenerated5_11-1>[12]</SUP> According to these studies, there are roughly 54 million Christians in China, of which 39 million are Protestants and 14 million are Catholics as the most common and reliable figure among others.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-autogenerated8_10-2>[11]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-autogenerated5_11-2>[12]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-autogenerated7_12-1>[13]</SUP>
Kiven Choy stated, in a Chinese weekly newspaper in Hong Kong, that the correct number of Protestants in China should be at around 20 million, while Time Magazine recently reported 65 million.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-33>[34]</SUP>
There are 4 million members of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and an estimated 12 million members of the underground Roman Catholic Church in China as of 2006.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-34>[35]</SUP>
Evolution isn't a choice MJ. You dont have a say or not what evolves, it just kinda happens. So people are naturally starting to evolve...except for those on the far far right who believe the earth is 6,000 years old and that Jesus rode dinosaurs and that faith can heal all. And allegedley some Asians and China men.
hno:
Evolution isn't a choice MJ. You dont have a say or not what evolves, it just kinda happens. So people are naturally starting to evolve...except for those on the far far right who believe the earth is 6,000 years old and that Jesus rode dinosaurs and that faith can heal all. And allegedley some Asians and China men.
You do realize that people that make grand exaggerations such as yourself are no better than a very small group of people that think the earth is 6000 years old.
Thats whats funny...you are of the same group. It's not defined by religion. Ron Paul might be a better common denominator. :lol:
